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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Movie Review: Dishoom

Dishoom:
Bromance in the Middle East!

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Rohit Dhawan’s second
directorial venture ‘Dishoom’ entertains despite its clichés and often seen action
scenes. India’s top cricket player Viraj (Saqib Saleem) vanishes in thin air from
one of the host country in the Middle East before a crucial and decisive final match
between India and Pakistan. The alleged abduction set the alarm bells ringing
at higher levels of the government. And a lady Minister heading the External
Ministry is found puffing and fuming on this news and trying to put her point -
the need to act quickly because there is an imminent possibility of communal
riots if Viraj is not traced back.

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On her behest, the case
is handed over to an ace cop Kabir (John Abraham) of the Indian Special Task
Force, who works on his own terms and charts his own path to find his hunt. Kabir,
a burly man with a swagger points a gun at an officer who comes to pick him up
from the airport just because he was asked to report first at the police
headquarters before he starts his investigation which was contrary to Kabir’s
wish.

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Kabir doesn’t like a ‘no’
and doesn’t heed to dictums. He can throw a man from an elevator for asking him
not to smoke; he picks his ‘Man Friday’ Junaid Ansari (Varun Dhawan) against
the wishes of the host country’s top rank boss; he can break and damage a car
stereo just because he only likes Mohd Rafi and Kishore Da. But surprisingly
this bull-headed cop along with his side-kick gets ready to strip down in their
fluorescent briefs and walks into a swimming pool on being instructed by a party
animal - a gay donning a man-bun (Akshay Kumar) - to extract some important
leads. Akshay Kumar in a cameo pulls of his act well but then he has nothing to
deliver to propel the story further.

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Varun Dhawan and John
Abraham seem to enjoy the camaraderie and have a perfect comic timing. Varun
Dhawan reminds Uday Chopra’s side kick act in Dhoom. Saqib Saleem as Viraj
Sharma does his bit but he is not so remarkable. Interestingly, both brother-sister
duos’ films got released this week. Huma Qureshi stars opposite to the South
Indian Super Star Mammooty in a Malayalam film titled as ‘White, which released
on the same date. The female brigade - Nargis
Fakhri and Jacqueline Fernandez – unfortunately are just ornamental props. A
small time pickpocket Ishika gets entangled in the man-hunt pursued by Kabir
and Junaid and tags along with them to all those locations for what, God knows.

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Akshaye Khanna as
Wagah, the antagonist is a caricature of what we saw in him in Race. To be
honest, this talented actor whom we saw in Taal, Gandhi My Father and many more
could have been better in his act after such a long sabbatical. Having said this, he should
stop taking breaks and continue to entertain us with much better roles and acts.

This buddy-cop story
of Rohit Dhawan and Tushar Hiranandani is full of loopholes but packaged with
all predictable comic and fights sequences to make it look entertaining. The
only song and music that stays with you is ‘Sau Tarah Ke Rog’. Pritam’s peppy music
and Abhijit Vaghani’s background score is pretty ok.

Go and watch Dishoom
without much expectation and see how Rohit Dhawan continues to hold on to David
Dhawan’s forte of brainless entertainment.